Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Taliban governor in Afghanistan

March 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Islamic State has claimed responsibility this Thursday for the suicide attack against the governor of Balkh province, Daud Muzmal, who has died as a result of an explosion registered during a meeting in his provincial office.

According to the SITE Intelligence Group portal, an organization specialized in monitoring terrorist groups, this attack represents a rebound in the country “after a quiet February”, since it occurred one day after the claim of another murder of an official Taliban in the city of Heart, in the west of the country.

“Islamic State continues to assert that this was not its first attack on Taliban officials and that it will not be its last, citing the car bombing in late December that killed Maulvi Abdul Haq Omari, Badakhshan Taliban police chief.” , has collected Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group.

Katz has also reported that these claims come just over a week after the Taliban announced the death of the intelligence chief of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) terrorist group, a subsidiary of the organization of the same name.

The Afghan authorities reported Thursday that Governor Daud Muzmal had died as a result of the seriousness of his injuries after the explosion of an explosive device.

The spokesman for the Balkh Security Command, Mohamad Asif Waziri, explained in statements to the Tolo News television channel that the explosion took place during a meeting in which administrative issues were discussed.